Monday, June 28, 2010

The first cartoon is, "Chaos Leading Parliament."Timely, really, Julia Gillardbecame the first woman and foreign-born Australian Prime Minister!! Exciting! My cartoon became true.

I put many famous Australian politicians. "All star cast."A2. Watercolor, pen&ink. Can you tell me who's who?A parody of "Liberty Leading the People" painted byEugene Delacroix.I sincerely hope Julia will advocate the voiceless and the powerless in our society.

The following cartoons are my doodles...

"All That in Mouth, "

Satchimo--Louis Armstrong.

"Mother of India, "

...Mahatoma Gandi.

"Mr CleanHead,"

...Eddie Vinson.

"Be Aware John Bulls,"

...WinstonChurchill.

I drew so many cartoons, portraits and caricatures in school days and at uni... Many text books and notes became "victims" for my graffiti. My friends loved them all, even though some teachers were not happy to find that I did not take note in class. Hahahaha!?!

Monday, June 21, 2010

Victoria Cancer Council has chosen my watercolor, "Joyful Song of Life" for Art Awards Exhibition. Anyone involved with cancer can participate a competition such as patients, family, friends etc, etc.

So, if you know someone involved with cancer and cancer patients, please pass this information.

Still a cause is unknown or idiopathic for the disability in my leg. I share time with people with cancer and leukemia during a treatment at hospital. Lovely. Other patients and hospital staff encourage me."Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief,"is true.

After the opening ceremony and the first exhibition in Melbourne, selected works will go around in Victoria from July to Christmas. A very long run. Venues, Time

Melbourne11 July - 30 July 2010Bendigo16 August - 2 September 2010Warrambool 28 September - 17 OctoberLatrobe6 - 30 November 2010 The Art Awards has become "international" from this year. "People's Choice" is set as well as judges' selections.If a participant agrees, a submitted work is for sale, which contributes to fundraising for Victoria Cancer Council, cancer research, support and prevention programs.

Besides a bonus of friendship, as long as drawing and painting is with me, I'm certain I will enjoy life and share joy with others. Already, nurses, patients and I celebrated my achievement and had fun together.I found the wonderful say on a hospital's wall.

"Live simply.Love passionately.Care deeply. Speak kindly.Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.It's about learning to dance in the rain."

Sometimes, life is not easy.I cannot dance well physically.BUT I want to be the best dancer in a storm in my own way!Last night, I saw little girls at Town Hall for a dance party. Outside of Town Hall, I was sketching a church under stars. Some kids came to me. The girl tried so hard to straighten up herself for me. High tension. So cute and funny, as if she were having a first date. Oh, be happy!

I sincerely hope, one day, no one will suffer in any sickness and my work will bring others joy of life!

Monday, June 14, 2010

Probably, watercolor is the most handy weapon to capture people at anywhere and anytime.

All of us immigrated to Australia from different countries except Aboriginal people. Each person has a precious story... I want to catch it.

I made these sketches on streets, in train and at a library.One boy silently looking beyond appeared to be very lonely. Later, I knew he was a refugee.Buskers from Latin America got a bit surprised at my sketching, but they really loved my work. I can sing a folkrore, "Carnaval" in Spanish and we had fun together.

Interesting. Most passengers were looking into mobile phones in train.A young uni student was working hard on her assignment. I assumed she was in a big rush before a due date in the morning train. (Good

luck! Thank goodness, I do not do it any more, yeah~~~!!).Well, I made another sketch of the lady just next to me and we had a big laugh together. I gave it to her just before my jumping out from the cart. So, a bit shame, I cannot show you that sketch. Never mind.

This little child talked to me in Hindi. No worries! I had a nice "chat" with this girl.

Of course, I know nothing about Hindi and just repeated what she said with a big gesture and biiig smile. I feel, especially young kids do not care languages and they pick up my intonations and body language. Above all, my painting made her and her parents happy.I'm very happy to see my small works bring other people happiness.

In addition, so many different languages are spoken among people in train and on streets, even though we are losing one language every 4 or 5 weeks...*If anyone is NOT willing to step over endangered languages, please read this article, "Your language footprint." This wonderful project team is struggling to archive our losing languages.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Actually, I popped up a library and looked up famous guys in books for rainy days.The quicker, the better for me to make sketches. Thinking too much makes dull work.

I really love black and white. I've mainly used 6B or so, soft and dark pencils for these years. Once, I preferred to 2B, when I used colored pencils. But when I got quicker and for watercolors, I began to choose bigger number pencils.

About Me

Award winning fine artist, enthusiastic children's picture book illustrator, portraitist and event/conference sketcher, Sydney based. Greatest strength: "Empathic portraits". Spontaneous and beautiful. Outstanding speed and accuracy. In only a few minutes, my quick portraits capture models in any posture with any facial expression on spot. Figures appear lively and emotionally. My linguistic training enables me to analyse the text in detail and organise appropriate story boards for the target audience. Sociological methods and research skills are used to capture insights from a text. The work bridges between a text, reality and imagination. Style is broad from whimsical cartoons to fine art for multifarious subjects. Japanese naitve speaker. Enjoy my works in StyleFile